Petr PIKAL wrote: > Hi > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal dne 19.10.2007 15:58:43: > > >> Sorry if this is already answered somewhere, but I could not find it. >> I have two vectors, x,y, of different length, and I want to recycle >> the smaller one (whichever one it is) until they have the same >> length. I was wondering if there is a anything better than something >> like: >> >> x<-1:3 >> y<-1:10 >> x<-rep(x,length=max(x,y)) >> y<-rep(y,length=max(x,y)) >> > > E.g. > > mat<-cbind(x,y) > > gives you desired recycling in matrix form or > > x*(y>0) > > if you know that y is longer than x and all number are bigger than 0. > It doesn't really help, though. I'd go for the straightforward
lx <- length(x) ly <- length(y) if (lx < ly) x <- rep(x, length=ly) else if (lx > ly) y <- rep(y, length=lx) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
